Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook 575
DarkOx sends this snippet from BusinessInsider:
"Anonymous has vowed to destroy Facebook on November 5th (which should ring a bell). Citing privacy concerns and the difficulty involved in deleting a Facebook account, Anonymous hopes to 'kill Facebook,' the 'medium of communication [we] all so dearly adore.' They continued, 'It is not a battle over the future of privacy and publicity. It is a battle for choice and informed consent. ... Facebook keeps saying that it gives users choices, but that is completely false. It gives users the illusion of and hides the details away from them "for their own good" while they then make millions off of you. When a service is "free," it really means they're making money off of you and your information.'"
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Re:Um... (Score:4, Informative)
I couldn't make it through that movie. Very awful.
I find it strange that Guy Fawkes idiot ends up being a hero or a symbol of freedom/anarchy/whatever. Guy Fawkes was not out to promote any sorts of liberties, he wanted to replace a Protestant monarch with a Catholic monarch. He failed at that, failed at achieving any aims at all, and so he's a hero because he's a reminder of no matter how badly you screw things up, someone is always a worse screw up than you.
And Americans don't need to read comics books to know what 5th of November is. We have real books here that can be read instead. This is is taught in history classes (well, at least pre no-child-left-behind).
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The world is crumbling around our feet
Just like it's done so many times before, only worse. Not that you can trouble yourself, of course, to read about the Dark Ages, or either of those pesky World Wars, or the 1918 flu epidemic, or anything like that.
the Middle East is lighting on fire
Yeah, just like it's been for thousands of years.
England is Rioting
Just like they've done before. Not that you've, again, bothered to study any history, or heard about the time London really burned down, or was bombed to rubble - just pick one episode and bone up on it.
American Congress caused the value of the dollar to fall through the floor
Ah, OK. It's now clear that you're completely clueless.
and our major enemy is Facebook?
No, that's the fashionable target for a bunch of simpering script kiddies. There's no "our" there.
Re:if not at least deface it! (Score:4, Informative)
In any event, this appears to be Anonymous trying to do something to hurt the U.S. Intelligence community, with the side-effect of raising awareness of data privacy issues.
Oh, ya that higher morality thing that Anonymous has going.. like the time they tried to fill youtube with porn. [npr.org]